Shaykh Uthman

I mean, people talk about nightmares and stress and grinding your teeth.

I'm telling you, man, if you've been through what I've been through, it's some crazy stuff.

Anyway, so that was life for us.

We used to go to school.

I got kicked out of so many schools.

You know, I mean, I had good grades, but I just, you know, gang life is gang life, right?

Somebody walks up, challenges you.

You got to do what you got to do.

And so, I mean, Wilson Middle School, I got kicked out.

I got jumped by an Asian gang.

And just me and my friends, we were making up laps and 30 guys came and jumped us.

So we pulled out knives, and when we pulled out knives, police got called.

And then went to PB Middle School.

I punched a teacher.

Why?

So I had good grades, right?

And I wanted to keep good grades because my mother was very strict on grades, right?

My mom didn't realize a lot of the stuff that I was involved in because she was working really hard to make the bills.

And I never disobeyed my mother.

I never spoke back to my mother.